relentless
not easing or slackening; maintaining speed, vigor, etc.: a relentless barrage of bad news.
unyieldingly severe, strict, or harsh: a relentless crackdown on human rights.
Origin of relentless
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Other words for relentless
Opposites for relentless
Other words from relentless
- re·lent·less·ly, adverb
- re·lent·less·ness, noun
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How to use relentless in a sentence
An early test of this approach occurred in 1999, when relentless erosion of the North Carolina shoreline forced the National Park Service to move the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and Keeper’s Quarters about a half-mile inland.
Preserving cultural and historic treasures in a changing climate may mean transforming them | Erin Seekamp | November 22, 2020 | Washington PostAs a player and a coach, he advocated the same relentless style of play he learned from Auerbach.
Tom Heinsohn, mainstay of Boston Celtics dynasty as player, coach, dies at 86 | Matt Schudel | November 11, 2020 | Washington PostHis relentless hustling led him to a job as a staff songwriter with a Nashville publishing company.
Billy Joe Shaver, singer-songwriter who inspired outlaw country, dies at 81 | Terence McArdle | October 29, 2020 | Washington PostI can be noisy and I can be relentless, but I don’t always convince my colleagues.
Why the “homework gap” is key to America’s digital divide | Tanya Basu | October 13, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewEngineers, facing relentless deadlines, rarely spend meaningful time with people on the sharp end of their code.
Spader, so intense and riveting last year as Red, has lost some of that unyielding relentlessness.
The Blacklist’s Frustrating Fall: Keen’s a Keeper, but Red Regresses | Jason Lynch | November 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe bloodletting in Syria has unfolded with deliberate relentlessness.
A New Start To U.S. Policy In Syria Can Save Lives | Tom Perriello | February 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI think a good book where you get a good sense of who this character is, his relentlessness.
And the novel, like the movie, moves forward with a delightful relentlessness.
Seriously, ‘Die Hard’ Was a Novel Before It Was a Movie and a Good One | Malcolm Jones | December 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThis is a novel about sexual deviance, relentlessness, and desire.
The Modern ‘Lolita’: Dramatizing the Mind of a Female Pedophile in Alissa Nutting’s ‘Tampa’ | Roxane Gay | June 28, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTUncouth and buffeted as his withered figure may have been, it still represented the relentlessness of the Law.
The Shadow | Arthur StringerOutside the snow was still falling with quiet relentlessness.
Destiny | Charles Neville BuckRoman relentlessness was roused to its fullest rage, and accomplished against them the destruction of prophecy.
It irritated him to fall from his usual relentlessness of common sense into a melting mood.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady | Lucas MaletIt gave me an impression of immovability, of patient and methodical relentlessness that was disheartening.
Under the Prophet in Utah | Frank J. Cannon and Harvey J. O'Higgins
British Dictionary definitions for relentless
/ (rɪˈlɛntlɪs) /
(of an enemy, hostile attitude, etc) implacable; inflexible; inexorable
(of pace or intensity) sustained; unremitting
Derived forms of relentless
- relentlessly, adverb
- relentlessness, noun
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